Shoe heel



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Fatented Mar. 10, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT H. SWAN, OF GRAND RAPIDS, LZ ADAM BROWN, OF ALTO, MICHIGAN, AND HARRY YOUNG, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

SHOE HEEL.

Application filed June 21,

To all wit-0m it may concern:

Be it known that we, HERBERT H. SWAN, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, Lz ADAM Brown, residing at Alto, in said county and State. and HARRY YOUNG, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, all being citizens of the United States, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shoe Heels, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to shoe heels; and its object is to provide a shoe heel having a portion which may be readily removed when worn or damaged and rcplaced by another such portion.

This and anv other objects hereinafter more specifically appearing are attained by, and the invention finds preferable embodiment in, the structure hereinafter particularly described in the body of this specification and illustrated by the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, in which drawings Figure 1 is a bottom plan view of thebody member of a shoe heel;

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same (applied to a shoe) taken on a vertical lane corresponding to line 2-2 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a bottom plan view of the attachable and detachable member of sair heel; and

Fi ure d is a vertical sectional view of the same taken on line 1- of Figure 3.

As shown in the drawings, a resilient body member 1, of rubber or the like, is secured to the shoe 2 by suitable means, as by screws 3 extending through openings in said member and through metallic washers or collars 4 embedded therein; the screws being threaded in the leather lifts 5 of the shoe-heelall in the usual manner. This body member 1 has a forward tread portion 6 and a rearward portion 7 whose bottom, as particularly shown in Figure 2, is spaced upwardly (in the sh-oes upright position) from the bottom or ground-contacting surface of said tread portion. This secondmentioned or rearward portion 7 of the body member has an overhanging forward wall 8, the middle nart 9 thereof being horizontally-cross-sectionally convex rearwardly and the end parts 10 of said wall extending in the transverse direction of the shoe. To

1923. Serial No. 646,817.

provide the overhang of this wall, it is desirably vertically inclined as shown. This second-mentioned portion 7 of the body member also has a socket 12, or preferably a plurality thereof spaced apart, extending vertically, such sockets being in the construction illustrated horizontally-cross-sew tionally convex rearwardly and concave forwardly. The second member 13 of the heel, also preferably resilient as of rubber or the like, is detachablv held on the body member of the heel, resting on the bottom of its portion '7 in the assembled position of the said members, by the following means and in the following manner:

This detachable member 13 has a projection 1 1, or as shown a plurality thereof spaced apart, adapted to be inserted into the socket 12 and to tightly fit therein. The member 13 has also a forward edge portion 15 fitting with and holdingly engaged by the middle and end parts of the overhanging wall 8. It will be understood that owing to the resilient character of these members 1 and 13, they may be distorted sufficiently to permit their assembling and disassembling in the manner described. Additional securing means for the detachable member 13 may be provided, as the screw 16 extending through said mel'nber and into the lifts 5.

The invention being intended to be pointed out in the claims, is not to be limited to or by details of construction of the particular embodiment thereof illustrated by the drawings or hereinbefore shown or described.

\Vhat is claimed is:

1. In a shoe heel; a resilient body member having a tread portion and a portion whose 9 bottom is spaced upwardly from the bottom of the tread portion, said second-mentioned portion having an overhanging wall and a vertically extending socket; a member detachably held by the body member and resting on the bottom of the second-mentioned portion thereof and having a. projection tightly fittingly inserted into its socket and an edge portion holdingly engaged by the overhanging wall, in the assembled position of said members.

2. In a shoe heel; a resilient body member having a forward tread portion and a rearward portion whose bottom is spaced upwardly from the bottom of the tread portion, said second-mentioned portion having an overhanging forward wall and a vertically extending socket; a member detachably held by the body member and resting on the bottom of the second-mentioned portion thereof and having a projection tightly fittingly inserted into its socket and a forward edge portion holdingly engaged by the overhanging wall, in the assembled position of said members.

3. In a shoe heel; a resilient body member having a forward tread portion and a rearward port-ion whose bottom is spaced upwardly from the bottom of the tread portion, said second-mentioned portion having an overhanging vertically inclined wall and a vertically extending socket; a member detachably held by the body member and resting on the bottom of the second-mentioned portion thereof and having a projection tightly fittingly inserted into its socket and a forward edge portion vertically inclined oppositely from and holdingly engaged by the overhanging wall, in the assembled position of said members.

I. In a shoe heel; a resilient body member having a forward tread portion and a rearward portion whose bottom is spaced upwardly from the bottom of the tread portion, said second-mentioned portion having an overhanging forward wall horizontallycross-sectionally convex rearwardly and a vertically extending socket horizontallycross-sectionally convex rearwardly and concave forwardly; a member detachably held by the body member and resting on the bottom of the second-mentioned portion thereof and having a projection tightly fittingly inserted into its socket and a forward edge portion holdingly engaged by the overhanging wall, in the assembled position of said members.

5. In a shoe heel; a resilient body member having a forward tread portion and a rearward portion whose bottom is spaced upwardly from the bottom of the tread portion, said second-mentioned portion having an overhanging forward wall horizontallycross-sectionally convex rearwardly and a plurality of spaced vertically extending sockets horizontally-cross-sectionally convex rearwardly and concave forwardly; a member detachably held by the body member and resting on the bottom of the secondmentioned portion thereof and having spaced projections tightly fittingly inserted into its sockets and a forward edge portion holdingly engaged by the overhanging wall, in the assembled position of said members.

6. In a shoe heel; a resilient body member having a forward tread portion and a rearward portion whose bottom is spaced upwardly from the bottom of the tread portion, said second-mentioned portion having an overhanging forward wall whose middle part is horizontallv-cross-sectionally convex rearwardly and whose end parts extend in the transverse direction of the shoe, and having also a vertically extending socket; a member detachably held by the body member and resting on the bottom of the secondmentioned portion thereof and having a projection tightly fittingly inserted into its socket and a forward edge portion holdingly engaged by the middle and end parts of the overhanging wall, in the assembled position of said members.

7. In a shoe heel; a resilient body member having a tread portion and a portion set our hands at Grand Rapids, Michigan,

this 12th day of June, 1923.

HERBERT H. SWVAN. LZ ADAM BROWN. HARRY YOUNG. 

